A history of preaching. Volume 2 / O. C. Edwards Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, O. C. (Otis Carl), 1928- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Preaching--History.

Preaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville, [Tennessee] : Abingdon Press, 2004.

Summary:

A History of Preaching brings together narrative history and primary sources to provide the most comprehensive guide available to the story of the church's ministry of proclamation.Bringing together an impressive array of familiar and lesser-known figures, Edwards paints a detailed, compelling picture of what it has meant to preach the gospel.

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to Volume 2; Part I: Homiletical Origins; Chapter 1: The Earliest Christian Preaching; A Synagogue Sermon; Melito of Sardis: Homily on the Passover; Chapter 2: The Homily Takes Shape; Origen: On First Principles (Vol. 4, Chaps. 2-3); Chapter 3: Eloquence in Cappadocia; Gregory Nazianzen: Panegyric on His Brother Caesarius (Oration 7); Chapter 4: Homiletics and Catechetics; John Chrysostom: Sermons on the Statues, Homily 12; Chapter 5: Augustine, the Sign Reader; Augustine: De doctrina christiana, Book 4; Augustine: Sermon on Psalm 31 [32]

Part II: The Middle AgesChapter 6: The Trek to the Middle Ages; Caesarius of Arles: Sermon 100, "St. Augustine on the Ten Words of the Law and the Ten Plagues"; Gregory the Great: Homily 37; Chapter 7: The Early Medieval Period; Charlemagne: Capitulary (Chapter 82); Hrabanus Maurus: Sermon Introduction; Aelfric: Sermon for the Wednesday in Rogationtide; Chapter 8: The Renaissance of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; Guibert of Nogent: "The Way a Sermon Ought to Be Given"; Alan of Lille: Sermon for the Day of Pentecost; Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermon 6 on "He Who Dwells" (Psalm 91)

Hildegard of Bingen: Homilies on the Gospels (24.1-4)Chapter 9: The Explosion of Preaching in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries; An Abstract of an Ars Praedicandi; An Example from a Handbook for Preachers; An Example of a Thematic Sermon; Chapter 10: A Homiletic Miscellany; Humbert of Romans: From On the Formation of Preachers; Meister Eckhart: Sermon on Luke 10:38; A Wycliffite Sermon in English; Part III: From the Renaissance and Reformation to the Enlightenment; Chapter 11: Erasmus and the Humanists; Erasmus: A Résumé of Ecclesiastes

Chapter 12: The Reformation Preaching of Luther and MelanchthonMartin Luther: Sermon on 2 Corinthians 3:4-6; Melanchthon: The Didactic Genus in Elementorum Rhetorices; Chapter 13: Calvin and the Reform Tradition; John Calvin: Sermon 9 on Job 19:26-29; Chapter 14: The Preaching of Catholic Reform; A French Baroque Sermon on Charles Borremeo; Chapter 15: Upheaval in Britain; Hugh Latimer: Sixth Sermon before Edward VI; Lancelot Andrewes: Fifteenth Nativity Sermon; Part IV: The Modern Era: From the Restoration to World War I

Chapter 16: The Dawn of Modernity (A): The Restoration and the Age of ReasonJohn Tillotson: Sermon 48, "The Unity of the Divine Nature and the Blessed Trinity"; Chapter 17: The Dawn of Modernity (B): The Recovery of Feeling; George Whitefield: Sermon on Jacob's Ladder; John Wesley: Preface to Sermons on Several Occasions; C. H. Spurgeon: Lecture on the Aim of Preaching; Chapter 18: American Reveille; Jonathan Edwards: Sermon on a Divine and Supernatural Light; Chapter 19: The Second Call; Francis Asbury: Journal Sample Pages; A Firsthand Report of a Camp Meeting

Charles G. Finney: "The Wages of Sin"

Notes:

Includes indexes.

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ISBN:

1-5018-3404-5

OCLC:

950464051